Passport to the Cosmos

I think Mack did an exceptional analysis of the abduction phenomenon and should be commended for his work. He writes about more than twenty different peoples' alien abduction experiences, using pseudonyms for some and real names for others. He writes about worldviews, tribal legends, organizations and researchers. He explains about the belief in hybrids, emotions and aliens. Mack says that, "The abduction phenomenon virtually forces us to consider profound philosophical questions about the nature of reality..." The only thing that seems unbelievable is that some of the abductees reacted with the exact same attitude, after being abducted, and referred to their experience in highly educated philosophical terms. It seemed unnatural that so many different people with different professions would use the exact same terminology, practically word for word, in describing their reactions. This is not a criticism of Mack’s work, only of the reports he analyzed

This afternoon, I finished reading "Passport to the Cosmos," one of the very best books ever written on the strange and compelling phenomenon of “alien abduction. The book is often luminous, delicate, and full of insight gleaned from nine years of working intimately with experiencers who shared aspects of their journey with author John E. Mack, and--through him--with the rest pf us. Macks’ first book on the topic, "Abduction," will remain a revolutionary classic, but "Passport" shows the results of letting his thinking refine itself over time, so that it often exhibits extraordinary subtlety. Gently and respectfully he teases apart and also brings together elements of the astonishing reports brought back by emissaries who have journeyed—not voluntarily, at least not at first—into astounding realms closed off to so many people for far too long. Three chapters on shamans and indigenous healers who have experienced such abduction indicate that the abduction experience may involve a rite of passage, where pain and terror allow for insight not easily attained in other ways. Here I recall the tremendous pain in my knee that arose during the first few days of a seven-day Japanese Zen sesshin more than forty years ago in London. Participants engaged in sitting meditation (zazen) sixteen times a day, and each of those sessions lasted forty minutes! Pain of some sort of became inevitable. The whole point, however, was not to move but instead to discover the teaching offered by pain, which was arising within a safe place. Worn out by resisting the pain for so many hours, but terrified that I would die if that terrible pain broke upon me, I finally surrendered and dove into it. Suddenly, the pain vanished, replaced by very intense sensations lacking a pleasure/pain valence so long as I stayed with those sensations moment by moment. Any thought of past or future instantly brought back the pain. During a subsequent ten-day meditation retreat in Barry, Massachusetts, I embraced the rising pain far earlier, which eventually led to a sequence of extraordinary states that culminated in absolute nothingness. Suddenly, I was back sitting on my cushion after an astonishing voyage of discovery made possible only by going through the portal opened by pain and terror.

Usually, the idea of a passport implies that one needs certain requirements to enter the kingdom of heaven, another reality, and isn't accepted for what one is. There I think is a difference with human ignorance of not understanding a problem in full as opposed to other beings in Mack's work that strangely violate free will on all levels and are viewed as positive. Any being, not to sound pessimistic for thousands of years is going to know how to manipulate something through experimentation, implantation, and alterations on human and other levels, and will present as a loving and kind being as Karla Turner has already proven through her own works, most New Age Earth is a school implies that one is simply being trained to perform a process rather then having one's own free will within that process. It's for that reason that New Age Books beyond the completely incomprehensible and nonsensical information that leads to nowhere faster than the so called belief in the field should raise some eyebrows. There are so many issues with the whole field of U.F.O. and alien abductions that a list of complaints could easily be larger then a Martin Luther nailing the list of complaints to the cosmic passport office. Here are a few perhaps of hundreds if not thousands, maybe more. (I'm not saying this is real as a field.)(1) Have violated abductees through experimentation, physical, and sexual abuse. Giving them PTSD symptoms and erasing their own memory for an agenda. This doesn't make them enlightened, advanced beings it just means that no matter how much they control they're abusers.(2) Have violated their free will and have gone into their mind to enforce their will upon human beings.(3) Appear to be manipulating human beings into a forced evolutionary process where the double or the other is not accepted, instead it alterity, differentiation, individuation, is made toward a more uniform, undifferentiated immortality, reflected in a being that has become indifferent to its own suffering, pain, and misery that it has inflicted on others as well as its own self, some might view this from a pro new age as stoicism, controlling thought, or something else, but is more self-abuse and removing emotion to not think about the consequences of what one is doing and since that would interfere with the performance, task, or function.(4) Remove human being souls by extracting them and putting them into clone bodies. The physical body is just as important as any other level. But again still abuse.(5) Want human beings to erase their own individuation to move toward a progressive hive mind thinking mentality. As in thinking, acting, and doing the same thing genetic alterations and other aspects make that permanently alter something for all time, means that the decision in a way is final. Since human beings are addicted to their gadgets and are under influence to be manipulated, the beings are probably the worst offenders of this, it just means exploitation, and being reduced to biological equilibrium and functions.(6) Have done their hardest to destroy all forms of individuality, creativity, and influence that humans may have over other aspects of the universe. They are quite able to do whatever they wish of course because the believe in their experimentation and wish for control, manipulation, influence, and exploitation of others.In the end, the big question is that nothing needs to be happening the way it is happening right now. If one is controlled, moved in that direction without second thought on what one is doing and what it is leading too, then it will continue, questioning it would cause something to shift and perhaps then one would finally figure out if one had a choice in the matter. Might as well end it there, the amount of issues is largely something that is nearly insurmountable, reflecting beings that are not as divisive as one thinks reading these things over time, divisive alien groups that don't say the same thing speaks to possibility and alternatives, rather then a one all be all direction that decides everything. Hopefully, when the time comes deportations can be ready to send people back to where they came from, unless in a twist truly idiotic it is somehow their own world, then they can't get dumped somewhere else and be forgotten, since that's the better alternative, while they don't change for all time and one finds the exit. At the very least, use discernment when reading this. My hope isn't some twist where souls are recycled or one is kept within the Gary Larson bozone layer out of incompetence and stupidity. At the very least exits should be made and who knows if this true. That would not be coming from the beings that have presented the choice again and would be their own, reason being they are the one's offering the choices, so in that way it isn't really one's own and proves again they are in control. Power lies in who presents the choice and offers it not the one choosing it.Ultimately, most of the works have the same general message of being accepted once you are this or once you become this. It's rather exclusionary and not accepting of what one is or presents. There is no reason whatsoever that humans need to go in the direction we are going in as a species. If humans carried out the behavior, experimented, altered them, or influenced any of them severely either in a positive or negative manner, it wouldn't be allowed its a hypocrisy. It's about domination and controlling others, the field itself could be a waste of time because if this is what the universe offers as cosmic neighbors then you might as well not bother and the universe has failed you on all levels.But with that it seems better to get deported rather then getting the passport if these things were true.

May be more helpful to those who can't handle the exact details of what were presented in his former best selling book Abductions. Extremely informative, detailed, and highly recommended.

Am only into the first few chapters, very interesting and so far am loving his attitude of looking into what the experiencers themselves say and not assuming mental ill health and so forth because of deviation from what's considered "normal"...this book could easily be read in conjunction with "Passport To Magonia" and "Hidden Valley, Hidden Mind" (which looks at these things from a Tibetan Tantric view) to great advantage, both available on amazon.One thing to note about this book, it say 370 pages, yes this is true, however the font used in this book is smaller than usually used these days (not a criticism or a problem just an observation) and thus this book is easily the equivalent of a standard 600 page book by my estimation. Happy reading.

Who are we?Where did we come from?IWhy are we here?This might help you answer these questions of help you understand why asking them might be dangerous when we consider Dr John Mack's fate. Thankful to have found this book. Grateful.Absolutely worth the investment of your time!

An ok read but quite boring and monotonous in parts, often referring to things already read and full of constant references mid paragraph. I also didn't like it going off on a spiritual route rather than physically what happend to these people !Some parts very interesting some a massive yawn !

A great book that takes a serious look at the E.T abduction phenomenon, this book lets the abductees tell their story without any patronising commentary. The correlation between shamanism and the E.T phenomenon is acknowledged which is important as both are intimately linked, I think a new mystical mythology is being born and I think that this book is a must read if one wants to get an understanding into this other realm of divinity 2.0. John E. Mack's work has brought gravitas to a strange subject and with great courage coming from a left brain lockdown paradigm that is Harvard University. Only those who are getting conscious E.T contact can only truly grasp the realness of this phenomenon, but it is important for others to get up to speed, or at least appreciate that there is more to life than this almost sub-human domain.

John Mack was ahead of his time, he took the alien abduction subject by the horns and delivered us a thought provoking look into life "out there", and has done it magnificently here. John Mack did another book, which i have also reviewed, he seemed to have gone further than alot of others in this field because he got past the fear of it all and showed us the real purpose of alien abduction, although i am an experiencer myself, i refuse to hold the word Abduction because its a negative phrase that does more harm than good. Since i opened my eyes ans seen the whole thing in all of its glory, i am now of the opinion that we all come from the same source, Despite different "costumes". And we are all participants one way or another...bravo